_Chloe_ (_Aunt_), "a homeless widow, of excellent Vermont intentions and high ideals in cup-cake, summoned to that most difficult of human tasks, the training of another woman's child.... She held it to be the first business of any woman who undertook the management of a literary family like her brother's to attend properly to its digestion."--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, _The Story of Avis_ (1877). CHLO'RIS, the ancient Greek name of Flora. Around your haunts The laughing Chloris with profusest hand Throws wide her blooms and odors. Akenside, _Hymn to the Naiads_. CHOE'REAS (_ch = k_), the lover of Callirrhoê, in the Greek romance called _The Loves of Choereas and Callirrhoê_, by Char'iton (eighth century). CHOKE (_General_), a lank North American gentleman, "one of the most remarkable men in the country." He was editor of _The Watertoast Gazette_, and a member of "The Eden Land Corporation." It was general Choke who induced Martin Chuzzlewit to stake his all in the egregious Eden swindle.--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844). CHOLMONDELEY [_Chum'.ly_], of Vale Royal, a friend of sir Geoffrey Peveril.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). CHOPPARD (_Pierre_), one of the gang of thieves, called "The Ugly Mug." When asked a disagreeable question, he always answered, "I'll ask my wife, my memory's so slippery."--Edward Stirling, _The Courier of Lyons_ (1852). CHRIEMHIL'DA. (See under K.) CHRISOM CHILD (_A_), a child that dies within a month of its birth. So called because it is buried in the white cloth anointed with _chrism_ (oil and balm) worn at its baptism. "He's in Arthur's [_Abraham's_] bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom [_chrisom_] child. 'A parted just ... at turning o' the tide." (Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff.)--Shakespeare, _Henry V_. act ii. sc. 3 (1599). Why, Mike's a child to him ... a chrism child. Jean Ingelow, _Brothers and a Sermon_. CHRIS'TABEL (_ch = k_), the heroine of a fragmentary poem of the same title by Coleridge. _Christabel_, the heroine of an ancient romance entitled _Sir Eglamour of Artois_. CHRISTABELLE [_Kris.'ta.bel_], daughter of "a bonnie king of Ireland," beloved by sir Cauline (2 _syl_.). When the king knew of their loves he banished sir Cauline from the kingdom. Then as Christabelle drooped the king held a tournament for her amusement, every prize of which was carried off by an unknown knight in black. On the last day came a giant with two "goggling eyes, and mouthe from ear to ear," called the Soldain, and defied all comers. No one would accept his challenge save the knight in black, who succeeded in killing his adversary, but died himself of the wounds he had received. When it was discovered that the knight was sir Cauline, the lady "fette a sighe, that burst her gentle hearte in twayne."--Percy, _Reliques_ ("Sir Cauline," I. i. 4).